Definition of "ontogenetic" []

• Of or relating to ontogenesis (adjective)

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• "*This is similar to what has been called ontogenetic ritualization: the co-shaping by individuals of a behavior over time, until even the very initial part of the behavior carries meaning for them."
• "S. frondaria's body (such as color) can be modified in response to the presence or absence of factors in the environment, on an "ontogenetic" timescale."
• "And there's been more from the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, papers on the "rauisuchian" archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis; the ontogeny of Stegosaurus; ontogenetic and taxonomic implications of pattern and transition of surficial bone texture of the centrosaurine frill; and Adeopapposaurus, a new prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina."